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SOCY 12Science and Justice: Critical Intro

5 creditsGE SIUndergraduateStudent Option

Students learn to critically analyze the entanglements of technoscience with systemic injustice. Our collective task is to creatively imagine and practically enact new ways of producing knowledge—including new approaches to science and technology—that support the mutual flourishing of the broadest possible range of lives. Course asks: What is the relationship between science, technology, and social justice? What power structures and systems of inequality do science and technology produce and uphold?

  • Also offered as CRES 12

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When it runs

Winter 2027Open Winter 2027

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Lecture
Tue Thu 5:20pm–6:55pm
Porter Acad 144M. TyOpen 0/55

Spring 2026Open Spring 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Lecture
Mon Wed Fri 4:00pm–5:05pm
Soc Sci 2 071K. SharmaClosed 70/70

Who teaches it

InstructorRatingDifficultyWould take againReviews
Kriti Sharma5.0 / 52.0 / 5100%2

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